Friday, 26 June 2015

The name of this flower is Epiphyllum
Oxpetalum – commonly known as ‘Queen of the Night’. The flowers bloom after
sunset for one night only. It has a nice pungent fragrance.

I think I have affinity with this plant/flower. I came upon
a couple of stalks of the plant discarded by my neighbour, and stuck them in my
pot. They were in bad shape and I was sure already 99 percent dead. But I thought I would gave it a try anyway. However,
they are very hardy plants, and after some time in the pot, they sprouted new
branches. They are actually quite healthy now, and have been flowering
frequently. I am very pleased.

Tuesday, 23 June 2015

I understood myself only after I destroyed
myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know how I really was.
- Sade Andria Zabala

Those who are unaware they are walking in
darkness will never seek the light. - Bruce
Lee

If you want to find the secrets of the
universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. - Nikola Tesla

Compassion is an aspiration, a state of mind,
wanting others to be free from suffering. It’s not passive – it’s not empathy
alone – but rather an empathetic altruism that actively strives to free others
from suffering. Genuine compassion must hav e both wisdom and loving kindness.
That is to say, one must understand the nature of the suffering form which we
wish to free others (this is wisdom), and one must experience deep intimacy and
empathy with other sentient beings (this is loving kindness). - The Dalai Lama (Essence of the Heart Sutra)

Sunday, 21 June 2015

The truth is that the more
intimately you know someone, the more clearly you’ll see their flaws. That’s
just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why
friendships don’t last. You might think
you love someone until you see the way they act when they’re out of
money or under pressure or hungry. Love is something different. Love is
choosing to serve someone and be with someone. Love is patient and kind, love
is deliberate. Love is hard. Love is pain and sacrifice. It’s seeing the
darkness in another person and defying the impulse to jump ship. - Unknown

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Happiness is an inside job. We can spend a lot of time looking for 'things' outside of ourselves to make us feel good or stimulate happy feelings and excitement, forgetting that it is all about our attitude to life: our positivity, feelings of appreciation and gratitude for our many blessings. - Unknown

Real happiness doesn’t come from getting
everything you want. It comes from sharing what you have with the people who
matter. - Unknown

The art of being happy lies in the power of
extracting happiness from common things. - Henry
Ward Beecher

If you want to
be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can’t just
wait to see what kind of day you’ll have. You have to decide what kind of day
you’ll have. - Joel Osteen

You can never be happy if you’re trapped in
the past and fearful of the future. Living in the present is the only way to be
happy. - Unknown

The happiest
people are those who have the courage to grow and risk in response to their
values. - Richard J. Leider

Be happy not because everything is good, but
because you can see the good side of everything. - Unknown

A sound mind in
a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. - John Locke

There are two
ways to be happy; improve your reality, or lower your expectations. - Jodi Picoult

We get attached to temporary things, then
wonder why our happiness never lasts. - Unknown

Be nice to yourself. It’s hard to be happy
when someone is mean to you all the time. - Chrisitne
Arylo

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered
mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? - Albert Einstein

If at first you don’t succeed, you’ll get a
lot of free advice from other folks who didn’t succeed either. - Unknown

If governments are involved in covering up
the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they
seem to do at anything else. - Stephen
Hawking

If it sounds like writing, I re-write it. - Elmore Leonard

If quitters never win, and winners never
quit, then who is the fool that first said: “Quit while you are ahead?” - Unknown

If there were no schools to take the children away
from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. - Edward
W. Howe

If you learn to work with all the negatives
in life, you will definitely make better pictures out of it. - Unknown

In
short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights
reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so
with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to
lose his mind. - Miguel de Cervantes
Saavedra

Sunday, 14 June 2015

If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that
I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which
never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance
which does harm. - Marcus Aurelius

The world is so exquisite with so
much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with
pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to
me, in our vulnerability is to look death in the eye and be grateful every day
for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. - Carl Sagan

Friday, 12 June 2015

Another comment on my book ‘Quote Worthy’. Always nice to have feed-backs, and to hear that people enjoyed my book.

"There's so much in here; whether you want to memorise your favourite quotes and impress by slipping them into conversations, or maybe just being virtuous, this book will have you searching your inner soul remembering the things you regret - the stuff you messed up on, but much of the quotes are aspirational, so after reflection, we can say: yeah - I wanna do that, to be like that, to be a better person.

"I learned a lot about myself by relaxing with these quotes - in particular about moving on and leaving stuff behind. Whatever stage of life we're at, there's something here to make you think very deeply."

Thursday, 11 June 2015

Good friends help you find important things
when you have lost them … things like your smile, your hope and your courage. -
Unknown

Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn't mean they are your friends. People pretend well. At the end of the day, real situations expose fake people, so pay attention. - Trent Shelton

Making a hundred friends is not a miracle.
The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when
hundreds are against you. - Unknown

True friendship isn't about being there when it's convenient; It's about being there when it's not. - Unknown

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. - Woodrow Wilson

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. it can be no other way. this is not philosophy. This is physics. - Albert Einstein

He who experiences the unity of life sees his
own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything
with an impartial eye. - Buddha

Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it. - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abi-Talib A.S

No one saves us but ourselves. Now one can
and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. - Buddha

If you want to find the secrets of the
universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. - Nikola Tesla

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life and yet, less attached to it. - Ram Dass

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures. - James E. Faust

Sunday, 7 June 2015

Every situation in life is
temporary. So, when life is good, make sure you enjoy and receive it fully. And
when life is not so good, remember that it will not last forever and better
days are on the way. - Jenni Young

The meaning of life is just to be
alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes
around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond
themselves. - Alan Watts

The purpose of life, after all,
is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and
without fear for newer and richer experience. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is about creating balance, not suppressing your good, and not suppressing your bad, for one cannot exist without the other ... embrace them equally. - Unknown

I can’t help but ponder, life is such a
wonder. And everything is beautiful in its own way. - Dolly Parton

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got. - R Brault

The art of life is constant
readjusting to your surroundings. - Kazuko
Okokaura

The doors we open and close each
day decide the lives we live. - Flora
Whittemore